[HCRA] NEQP motivation

[Jeffrey Bail]

It's not the Hampden County QSO Party. It's the New England QSO party. HCRA
is just sponsoring an award to encourage operators in Hampden County to get
on the air. They are not changing any rules.

If HCRA members are being discouraged from operating because they can't
compete with someone running full legal limit then I think it should be
changed to SOLP. The members are paying for the plaque after all. Going
SOLP will hopefully encourage more members and operators in the county to
participate. BOD doesnt have to participate to make that decision. They are
hopefully trying to do what's best for the club

If you want that Hampden County plaque so bad, I think you can turn off the
amp for one weekend. If not, use the amp and go after the many other
plaques that could me won.

If it's a big issue for you, pay your dues and voice your concern to the
board.

-Jeff NT1K

On Fri, May 4, 2018, 10:55 AM Chris via HCRA <hcra at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

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> I'm not suggesting a mandate for all.  But if a group of directors are
> going to change the rules for everybody they should at least participate in
> the contest (even if for a few hours) and submit a score.
>
> It doesn't seem right when not a single Board member is partaking in the
> contest yet they feel the need to make a drastic rule change.
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>
> 73,
>
> Chris  NU1O
> nu1oscar at aol.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Dove <alan.dove at gmail.com>
> To: Chris <nu1oscar at aol.com>
> Cc: hcra <hcra at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Fri, May 4, 2018 10:58 am
> Subject: Re: [HCRA] NEQP motivation
>
>
> Hey, folks:
>
> I like to set an achievable but challenging goal for myself when I enter a
> contest. In 2016 I focused on beating the top HMDMA score from the previous
> year. I managed to do that with 100W despite horrific band conditions, and
> felt pretty proud of that. When the results finally came out, I found I was
> second in the county to someone who ran 10x the power. That left me feeling
> a bit tilted, as the gamers say. While that wasn’t the only reason I didn’t
> enter in 2017, it was certainly a contributor.
>
> On the second suggestion, I hate the idea of mandating participation in a
> contest. This is supposed to be fun, remember?
>
> —Alan (AB1XW)
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> Alan Dove, Ph.D.
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> alan.dove at gmail.com
>
>
> > I think it was an unwise decision to change the rules so the winner of
> Hampden County is in the low power category. That means
> > if I want to qualify for a plaque I'm at a disadvantage vis-a-vis all
> the leading scores in New England.
> >
> > Last year only four stations from Hampden saw fit to submit their logs
> for the NEQP. As a matter of fact, I accounted for 95% of the points in
> Hampden County for 2017's NEQP. The problem is not an uneven playing field.
> The problem in Hampden County with regard to the NEQP is apathy and lack of
> participation. Let me also add that not one HCRA board member submitted a
> log last year. So, I don't think it's fair to say the board is speaking for
> the hams of Hampden County since none took the time to participate in the
> NEQP.
> >
> > Perhaps there should be a requirement that an HCRA board member must
> participate in the NEQP and submit a log?
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Chris
> > nu1oscar at aol.com
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